Before innovation - or practical creativity - there is insight. You must see the world differently.

As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.

Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups.

Innovation can start with wanting what does not yet exist - and finding a solution - or seeing what does not yet exist - and finding an opportunity.

Plug into the anti-obvious power of the rebel. Or get those opposing minds to plug into your purpose, to solve your problem, to reimagine your process.

The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity.

If traditional doesn't work, then traditions won't do.

Problem-insight precedes solution insight. Someone has to recognise a problem before they start to solve the problem...

If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.

The older generation sat looking at the younger, and Kat wondered exactly when and how the baton had been passed. She wanted to know if it was too late to give it back.

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

You know what, maybe I just want a different kind of life. Maybe I want to open an antique store and coffee shop, and have a different kind of life.

Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.

Maybe, so Donald Trump didn't start the fire at this particular Chicago protest, but fanning the flames is a problem.

Although it is the biggest time-waster in office life, you must never underrate the importance of the memo. You will be judged by the volume of your paper work.

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.

It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.

No one is alone during tribulations - there's always someone else thinking, rejoicing or suffering in the same way. This thought gives us strength to face the challenge that lies in front of us.

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.